Quotes About Output

What actually followed the cuts in tax rates in the 1920s were rising output, rising employment to produce that output, rising incomes as a result and rising tax revenues for the government because of the rising incomes, even though the tax rates had been lowered.

Britain was overtaken not only in gross output but also in output per worker. It lost its lead in technological innovation.

If you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.

High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.

While the ability to rapidly communicate using digital messages is useful, the frequent disruptions created by this behavior also make it hard to focus, which has a bigger impact on our ability to produce valuable output than we may have realized.

you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.

This provides another general observation for joining the ranks of winners in our economy: If you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.

I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule. Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.

I'll call this output-centric approach to work the craftsman mindset. My

law of productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

If you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. Having

economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.

Goldratt taught us that in most plants, there are a very small number of resources, whether it's men, machines, or materials, that dictates the output of the entire system. We call this the constraint—or bottleneck. Either

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

But the actual arguments advocated by Secretary Mellon had nothing to do with a "trickle-down theory." Mellon pointed out that, under the high income tax rates at the end of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1921, vast sums of money had been put into tax shelters such as tax-exempt municipal bonds, instead of being invested in the private economy, where this money would create more output, incomes and jobs.[8

There is no such thing as getting more than you put into anything.

Remember, your output is not a work of art; it's a work product designed to help the customer – whoever the customer is.